Collection Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, memoranda, manuscripts, and printed matter concerning
the Department of Forestry at Cornell, including curriculum material, minutes
of staff meetings, and reports; correspondence pertaining to the forestry
education situation in New York. Includes Hosmer's student notes at Harvard
(1891-1894), notes on Central Park (1895), a diary (1897-1898), papers and
articles by Hosmer and others, manuscripts of radio talks. Also, clippings
concerning Hamilton Littlefield, Jesse Hoyt, and Edward F. Loud, 19th century
Michigan "lumber kings." Also, material pertaining to the Society of American
Foresters, American Forestry Association, Empire State Forest Products
Association, U.S. Forest Service, Institute of Forest Genetics, State College
Council, New York State Forestry and Park Association, and the New York State
Forestry Association.